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2016 Chittenden County, VT Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Chittenden County, VT went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 127K customer-hours (Vermont average 4.3 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 14 Vermont counties and 1716th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with VT, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Vermont customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Chittenden County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 14, 2016 20:00 | October 14, 2016 22:00 | 2h | 6,206 | 12K |
| 2 | December 1, 2016 04:45 | December 1, 2016 18:30 | 13h 45m | 3,505 | 6,043 |
| 3 | July 23, 2016 19:30 | July 24, 2016 22:30 | 1d 3h | 3,114 | 11K |
| 4 | October 18, 2016 16:45 | October 18, 2016 20:45 | 4h | 2,544 | 657 |
| 5 | October 21, 2016 18:15 | October 24, 2016 09:45 | 2d 15h | 2,013 | 9,456 |
| 6 | October 3, 2016 01:45 | October 3, 2016 17:15 | 15h 30m | 1,780 | 9,514 |
| 7 | January 10, 2016 15:30 | January 11, 2016 09:45 | 18h 15m | 1,727 | 5,596 |
| 8 | November 30, 2016 02:30 | November 30, 2016 11:30 | 9h | 1,705 | 3,236 |
| 9 | July 26, 2016 19:15 | July 26, 2016 20:00 | 45m | 1,663 | 832 |
| 10 | April 12, 2016 14:15 | April 12, 2016 17:15 | 3h | 1,657 | 831 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 81 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Chittenden County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2016 | 3.6 hrs | 1.70 | 3.6 hrs | 1.70 |
| Green Mountain Power Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Burlington Electric - (VT) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Vermont's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 113,089 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Chittenden County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chittenden County, VT annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/vermont/chittenden-county